Samuel Johnson Quotes

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

You can't always get what you want.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful